Imagining aridity: Human-environment interactions in the Acacus Mountains, South-West Libya

Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-95

  Biagetti, Stefano ^a   Chalcraft, Jasper Morgan ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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